Morrissey has expressed his support for his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr after he recently criticised Prime Minister David Cameron.

In a post on Twitter, guitarist Marr quipped that he had forbidden Cameron from liking his previous band.

In an open letter to fansite True To You, Morrissey said: "I would like to try to explain why I think Johnny is right not to be flattered. It is true that music is a universal language - the ONLY universal language, and belongs to all, one way or another.

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"However, with fitting grimness I must report that David Cameron hunts and shoots and kills stags - apparently for pleasure. It was not for such people that either Meat is Murder or The Queen is Dead were recorded; in fact, they were made as a reaction against such violence."

In the wide-ranging letter, Morrissey also insulted "so-called royalty" including the Queen, who he said is "indifferent" to the killing of brown bears, adding that no-one could "remember or repeat a single word ever spoken by the Queen, such is her command of communication".